Marjorie Cohn on the Roberts Court’s demolition of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the law that brought an end to the Jim Crow system of post-Civil War legalized racial segregation.
The US Supreme Court, Race & the Right to Vote
Tag: Justice Elena Kagan
US Supreme Court’s Anti-Immigrant Ruling
Dissenting members of the court accused the majority of issuing an unnecessarily broad ruling that could be used to strike down the right to same-sex marriage, writes Marjorie Cohn.
Biden Tells Supreme Court Torture Is a State Secret
Biden wants to keep secret what is already well-known, that Abu Zubaydah was tortured, reports Marjorie Cohn.
Now It’s Up to the People to End Gerrymandering
The High Court decided to do nothing about a practice that, in the words of dissenting Justice Elena Kagan, “beats democracy,” writes Marjorie Cohn.